No Association Whatsoever Thread

[LezLee]

Ariel, in one pod. Keep away from children.



Ad on TV this morning.

Something I've practised all my life

[LezLee]

Whatever one’s point of view (assuming no one here is a tabloid hack), this is brilliant writing imvvho:

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-critics-worse

Marina Hyde is reliably superb.

[Serial_Apologist]

Andy Pandy: Right, it's over now to our correspondent in Bolton. What's happening on the ground there?

Weed: Weeeeeeeds?

[Serial_Apologist]

And this one, from another "on location" BBC reporter on the 1 o'clock news: "On Monday, indoors is going to be the new outdoors".

Is anyone else getting fed up with this sort of pretentious verbal garbage?

[LMcD]

And this one, from another "on location" BBC reporter on the 1 o'clock news: "On Monday, indoors is going to be the new outdoors".

Is anyone else getting fed up with this sort of pretentious verbal garbage?

Yup!

[vinteuil]

..ah, the Spørgsmålet om Sønderjylland og Holsten!

As Lord Palmerston said - "Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business – the Prince Consort, who is dead – a German professor, who has gone mad – and I, who have forgotten all about it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein_Question

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[LMcD]

..ah, the Spørgsmålet om Sønderjylland og Holsten!

As Lord Palmerston said - "Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business – the Prince Consort, who is dead – a German professor, who has gone mad – and I, who have forgotten all about it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein_Question

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Sounds about as much fun as the West Lothian Question!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sounds about as much fun as the West Lothian Question!

True: it would never get through the Commons.

[gradus]

Very annoyingly the brake lever on my 1/40th scale model Lambretta Li125 series 1, has been broken off. Where are The Borrowers when you need them.

[Nick Armstrong]

The bloke presenting the midnight news on BBC is wearing Mahler-style pince-nez....



Has anyone been aware of their use this side of the Great War...

[LMcD]

The bloke presenting the midnight news on BBC is wearing Mahler-style pince-nez....



Has anyone been aware of their use this side of the Great War...

That 'bloke' is the estimable Sean Ley, who has a nice line in self-deprecation.

[Nick Armstrong]

That 'bloke' is the estimable Sean Ley, who has a nice line in self-deprecation.

True, couldn’t remember his name when posting - and his nose-wear seemed more important at the time

No reaction to that?

[LMcD]

True, couldn’t remember his name when posting - and his nose-wear seemed more important at the time

No reaction to that?

Might he have come across them while going through his late grandfather's belongings?

[Serial_Apologist]

Might he have come across them while going through his late grandfather's belongings?

Who nose?

[Nick Armstrong]

Who nose?

No need to make a spectacle of yourself